Top Remote Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Develop and test AI software using large datasets, algorithms, and statistical analysis for industrial applications. Collaborate with machine learning and data engineers to build integrated AI/ML solutions, evaluate performance, monitor industry trends and regulations, and present progress to leadership and stakeholders. The internship offers hands-on experience, mentorship, and exposure to practical AI innovation.

Develop and test AI software for industrial applications using Python, JavaScript, and C++. Evaluate data, statistics, and algorithms; collaborate with machine learning and data engineers; support end-to-end AI/ML integration; monitor industry trends and regulations; and present progress to leadership and stakeholders.

Lead research, architecture, and production deployment of large-scale algorithms for budget pacing, bid optimization, and marketplace balancing in Yahoo’s DSP. Apply control theory, optimization, and machine learning to real-time systems, while establishing AI-augmented research and engineering workflows. Own multi-quarter initiatives, define evaluation frameworks, guide technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, mentor scientists and engineers, and communicate complex research and architectural decisions to executives.

Owns end-to-end development of datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and evaluations for coding agents and software engineering models. Leads engineers, researchers, QA professionals, and data creators; establishes quality processes, pipelines, validation, and review workflows. Collaborates directly with frontier AI labs, fine-tunes models, builds benchmarks, develops automation and internal tools, and supports customer-facing enablement. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, engineering management, operational execution, research, and industry thought leadership.

Analyze emerging AI workloads and build analytical performance models and architecture simulators for current and future AI inference accelerator hardware. Collaborate with hardware, compiler, inference server, kernel, and product teams to validate assumptions, identify HW/SW optimization opportunities, incorporate architecture research, and document methodologies. The role is a hands-on technical contributor focused on performance analysis across the hardware/software boundary.

Design and lead large-scale machine learning and backend systems for advertiser growth, including budget pacing algorithms, GenAI creative generation infrastructure, marketplace experimentation, high-throughput billing pipelines, and real-time stream processing. Analyze marketplace and financial data, optimize advertiser performance, ensure billing accuracy and fault tolerance, lead multi-quarter technical roadmaps, and mentor senior engineers.

Leads and manages an applied machine learning team developing fraud detection and identity verification models. Responsibilities include people management, coaching, code review, production ML systems, model lifecycle ownership, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, fraud research, cross-functional prioritization, and communicating results. The role remains hands-on while partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, and leadership to drive measurable business impact and shape future product strategy using machine learning and AI.

Leads an applied machine learning team and owns fraud detection and identity model strategy, development, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Partners with Product, Engineering, Risk, and senior leadership to set priorities and deliver business impact. Provides technical mentorship, reviews code, guides modeling and architecture decisions, researches fraud patterns, develops ML capabilities, and shapes responsible AI use under data governance and security constraints.

Lead the strategy, design, deployment, and scale-up of AI-powered health products across the Global South. Own product roadmaps, execution, government-system integration, stakeholder adoption, partnerships, grant development, and portfolio expansion. Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, program, and domain teams to deliver sustainable, measurable public-health impact.

Participants are needed for an AI technology research study, offering compensation up to $600 for ~1.5-2 hours of participation over one week, requiring skills in tech-related roles.

Performs advanced physical and remote insurance premium audits for business clients. Reviews business records, interviews owners and managers, investigates exposures, documents findings, prepares written audit reports, schedules assignments, communicates results, and submits completed work for quality review. The auditor must manage deadlines independently, correct returned audits, maintain accurate records, and use Microsoft Office applications. This remote role requires reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, strong analytical and communication skills, and at least five years of premium insurance auditing experience.

Leads the company’s adoption of AI, analytics, automation, and business intelligence. Builds AI-powered workflows, Excel solutions, natural-language data interfaces, dashboards, forecasts, predictive analytics, and automated reporting using Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, and related tools. Partners across business functions to identify opportunities, improve data quality, automate repetitive processes, and deliver scalable decision-support solutions. Establishes responsible AI practices and advances an AI-first analytics culture.

Design and deploy machine learning models for financial document processing, optimize large language models, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and guide junior peers in a fast-paced environment.

Lead the Data Sources product roadmap for document parsing, fraud detection, and bank aggregation. Drive metrics (parse accuracy, fraud catch rate, connection success, SLAs), write specs, engage clients, mentor PMs/engineers, and represent the platform externally. Prioritize document types, extraction models, reliability, and scalability to improve conversion, client satisfaction, and operational efficiency across mortgage, tenant screening, and government use cases.

Build and operate production machine learning training systems on Amazon SageMaker using AWS Trainium. The role focuses on optimizing PyTorch code for Trainium hardware, understanding NeuronCore compilation, diagnosing device-level issues, tuning distributed training for cost and throughput, and delivering production pipelines. The engineer will collaborate directly with client and internal teams in a forward-deployed engineering environment.

Lead end-to-end ML systems for identity verification, including document authenticity, face match, liveness and deepfake detection. Build GNN-based identity graphs, behavioral/device-intelligence models, vendor benchmarking/evaluation, and production enforcement. Mentor engineers and align ML architecture with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Security stakeholders.

As a Research/ML Engineer, you will translate cutting-edge AI research into product solutions, develop safety and reliability systems, and collaborate with technical teams.

Lead design and implementation of scalable data models and analytical tooling for Consumer Product. Partner cross-functionally to translate business needs into reliable SQL/Python data products, dashboards, and automated pipelines using engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, version control, monitoring). Drive data-informed strategy and manage long-term infrastructure while supporting ad hoc requests.

Evaluate and author high-quality computer science content to improve AI model reasoning and accuracy. Analyze complex CS problems, create scenarios/datasets, review AI outputs for correctness, and collaborate remotely to refine guidelines and documentation.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build and deploy ML models for risk and fraud detection, leading technical efforts and collaborating cross-functionally.

The Research Advisor will provide high-level consultancy for generative AI systems, engage in research collaborations, and represent the Human Frontier Collective in key executive meetings.

The Director of AI will lead AI and machine learning initiatives, develop AI architecture for humanoid robots, oversee production-ready AI systems, and manage team growth and budget.

Lead a team to enhance Cengage Learning Platforms by implementing AI-first strategies, improving software delivery processes, and ensuring product quality.

Lead the architecture, development, modernization, performance optimization, and reliability of enterprise-scale machine learning platform software. Mentor engineers, influence cross-team technical decisions, conduct code reviews, evaluate AI-assisted code, design cloud-native systems, and drive high-quality delivery across complex application layers. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, production services, and enterprise engineering practices.

Develop and expand software products and platforms across backend, frontend, cloud, AI, and machine learning systems. Build efficient, reliable, and testable code; collaborate with business partners to launch features; influence product and engineering decisions; mentor team members; and help shape team culture and product vision in an agile environment.